Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag has occurred near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea

A earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was reported 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Kokopo in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 22:00:34 / October 10, 2018 @ 10:00 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000habl. Id of event: us1000habl. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kokopo in Papua New Guinea (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 123.68 km, 151.6793° East, -4.9591° South. The temblor was detected at 08:00:34 / 8:00 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 123.68 km (77 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Kokopo (c. 26 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Rabaul (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rabaul, Kokopo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 93 km SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.6793° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.9591° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	123.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93km SW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-10 22:00:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-10 22:20:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.81	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	1	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	611	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.902	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	15	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000habl	Id of event.
Event Code	1000habl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000habl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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